Dr. Guru Parulkar, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Computer and Network
Systems division, will speak at UTA as a CSE Distinguished Lecturer on Wednesday, Oct. 18. The
open lecture will be held in the Rady Room in Nedderman Hall at 2:30 p.m., with a reception and
refreshments preceding it at 2 p.m..
Dr. Parulkar is driving the technical direction of the Global Environment for Networking
Innovations, or GENI, initiative, which is aimed at creating the future Internet, with help
from the broader research community. His lecture will be on the GENI initiative and its work to
create new Internet architectures and distributed systems, with discussion also on how researchers
can participate.
Prior to joining NSF, Dr. Parulkar spent several years in the Silicon Valley involved in high-tech
startups. Among his multiple ventures, he co-founded Growth Networks and served as its CTO and
director. Growth Networks was acquired by Cisco Systems.
He is a former professor of computer science at Washington University and served as director of
its Applied Research Laboratory and led large multi-investigator systems projects in gigabit
networking, next generation Internet, multimedia systems and networking, active networking, and
network measurement and visualization. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University
of Delaware in 1987.